How do you pronounce Solecismic?

[Antmeister]

Is it so-la-siz-mick or sole-siz-mick or so-lee-siz-mick?

[Glengoyne]

neither

[Joe]

sole-kiz-mick?

[Pyser]

soe-leh-siz-mick in my mind.

[Antmeister]

I have been pronouncing it so-la-siz-mick and figured it may be wrong, but I don't know which one is the correct way to pronounce it.

[Antmeister]

soe-leh-siz-mick in my mind.
Hmmm...I wonder if yours is the correct way to say it.

[KWhit]

Jim.

[VPI97]

sole-siz-mick


But then again, I'm a hick from southern West Virginia...what do I know?

[KWhit]

I would say sole-a-size-mick.

[ThunderingHERD]

sŏl'ĭ-sĭz'mĭk

[KWhit]

sŏl'ĭ-sĭz'mĭk

I love it when you talk phonetics to me.

[ThunderingHERD]

I love it when you talk phonetics to me.

wä'nə sī'bər?

[Antmeister]

wä'nə sī'bər?

LOL!!!! Just KWhit it! Please just KWhit.

[KWhit]

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[Logan]

I'm pretty sure this thread has been done before. Along with the one that goes: do you pronouce it "fof" or "eff-oh-eff?"



FYI, I'm in the "sole-uh-siz-mik" camp.

[Toddzilla]

wä'nə sī'bər?Ell-Oh-Ell

[Young Drachma]

Is it so-la-siz-mick or sole-siz-mick or so-lee-siz-mick?

How long have you been here?

Funny thread. More interesting than watching Anderson Cooper wear a bulletproof vest.

[Antmeister]

How long have you been here?

Funny thread. More interesting than watching Anderson Cooper wear a bulletproof vest.

Mr. Cloud, what are you trying to say? I don't know what you BLANKING saying to me. :)

[Raiders Army]

I pronounce it solecismic...exactly how it's spelt.

[tanglewood]

so-leh-siz-mik

[Poli]

EFF--OH--EFF

[amdaily]

More interesting than watching Anderson Cooper wear a bulletproof vest.

from the sart to this, this threead is fucking LOMfunyy LOL>

[Joe]

FOFF

[M GO BLUE!!!]

smith

[Pumpy Tudors]

gangrene

[AZSpeechCoach]

I call this place foff-see.

[Solecismic]

so-leh sihz-mik

F.O.F., for symmetry with T.C.Y.

[st.cronin]

I call this place foff-see.

Ditto. I pronounce your name "arizona speech coach."

[Raiders Army]

I call this place Front Office Football...or more like frontofficefootball.

[Draft Dodger]

so lee size mick or so li size mick

[Franklinnoble]

So is it "line-iks" or "lin-ucks"?

[Glengoyne]

So is it "line-iks" or "lin-ucks"?

I think the Line - icks crowd has given up the battle, but for a while they were making for an annoying new strata in the everchanging nerd hierarchy.

[Franklinnoble]

I think the Line - icks crowd has given up the battle, but for a while they were making for an annoying new strata in the everchanging nerd hierarchy.

Yeah, I know. When they started including Linus Torvold's pronunciation in .mp3 with various builds, I knew it had gone too far...

[Julio Riddols]

Lets play telephone.

[FBPro]

T-R-O-U-T

[AZSpeechCoach]

Ditto. I pronounce your name "arizona speech coach."

Really? I pronounce it "Sex Stud." Weird.

[Deattribution]

Now that we know how to pronounce it, what the hell does it mean? :)

[Samdari]

Now that we know how to pronounce it, what the hell does it mean? :)

dick-shun-air-eee

[Huckleberry]

The dictionary says the word doesn't exist. Adjective for solecism is solecistic.

[Toddzilla]

Soul Sizz Mick

Roffle

[Solecismic]

I know I've told this story here before, but Solecismic came into being one night in 1994 or 1995.

I had just joined AOL (back when it was the only real option for home internet service) and I was just getting into their trivia contests. People always played under handles, so I needed to create one. Since I'm an old English major, and the theme of many of the games I played was literature, I wanted something obscure that English majors might "get."

So I took the word Solecistic, which means making a mistake, or a grammatical mistake, and I made a pun out of it. Solecismic is an error about a word describing an error. Absolutely hilarious, right? Right?

A year or so later, when I decided it might be fun to create games for a living, I needed a company name. The literature I read from the Small Business Association said that the best company names were from made-up words. That way, you're far less likely to engender confusion or lawsuit situations. So I took my AOL screen name.

We've been talking about internet dating in other items here. I met my wife through the AOL Trivia channel.

[Poli]

There was internet in 1994?

Just kidding. Great story.

[Toddzilla]

FYI, from Websters:

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Solecistic \Sol`e*cis"tic\, a. Solecistical.

Ergo

Solecismic = \Sol`e*cis"mic\

[Poli]

What are you getting at? Solcismical?

[Grammaticus]

So I took the word Solecistic, which means making a mistake, or a grammatical mistake, and I made a pun out of it. Solecismic is an error about a word describing an error. Absolutely hilarious, right? Right?

And I thought it had something to do with tectonic plate movement or earthquake activity.

[Bonegavel]

I've always said it:

soul-kizz-mick